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Love your work so looking forward to whatever you got coming next whenever and wherever that may be!

Good luck!

Yes please, I remember playing your maps and they were amazing.

Isn't that what water arrows are for? ^^

At first I thought this is a good idea but Siyah is right. Its not very realistic if AI does not see it and if they Alert... where is the use. Maybe if it is only temprary or a way to remove it after passing thru or something...

Not that unrealistic that the guards interprets the sudden darkness as a power failure. The lamp doesn't need to be completely off eigther, just muffled. After a few seconds the moss catches fire and disappears. Just a weird thought

Patches don't seal so even if you create a leak somehow, it would've leaked anyway. The only issue is shadows. If the patch casts shadows the leak would make shadow silhouette calculations more complex.

The only downside, minor, I've seen is that the polygon normals get a little glitchy (darkened) towards the fusion point. In terms of texturing, you'd need to paste from a brush to avoid massive distortion.

Congratulations for your FM, FM!

Congrats- yay for us!

Congrats! Look forward to playing it tonight!

You can export brush and patchwork using the DR ASE exporter. But you can't combine worldspawn and models.

Okay, but is it an easy task to (in Blender) to import the same model, say several bottles and then arrange them to look like a bunch of bottles, on the same z-plane and then save it as a unique model? Instead of using up several entities in DR...

Yeah, you can totally do that with Blender easily. Though it can be slightly problematic to get smoothing right on a prop with a lot of hard edges. I've found you really just have to split edges manually for it to translate over correctly. Which can be kinda a pain if you don't use Blender often.

It's a mixed feeling as always Tyler, it's Not An Ordinary Guest. The more the merrier The time here is now 10:15...

I would love to beta test it if you would like. I have never done it before but I guess I just look out for things wrong/right and comment on it?

Thread created in the separate forum. Ask Springheel for access.

tech support section and a post to report bug so it is not missed/forgotten?

+1 on what sotha said.

Thread made...

There are clusters of path_nodes in my current mission...Over 50 placed AI...

Things will get funny if you encounter any problems

I've planned quite well in advance and have charts on where they shall be placed

And as light shines through caulk, one could use this for some nice effects.

I've put lights in the void before but then I automatically wrapped them with caulc walls to make a little house for the light, a light house

When I first saw that, software popped into my head... as in "core dumped" (aka program crashed) Then I realized... Welcome to the single world, my friend.

Sorry to hear that... TDM widow?

Ouch. But look at the bright side. This is most likely the most optimal time of year to be dumped. Lots of activities, lots of new more interesting people to meet... You'll be fine.

For the record, I get voice actors from people doing vlogs on YouTube, so I know what I'm getting & they're already predisposed to participate.

Would be cool if you could get this girl back and finish the job

Excellent! I'll await all your contributions with overflowing enthusiasm! Heja Sverige!

Have you tried enabling transparency AA and playing a mission with lots of foliage?

I have the same card as you and if you want the best performance (as I also get a little lag in certain TDM missions for some reason) I enable AA in the nvidia control panel and just have the game without AA.

It runs really well and you still get the AA

I haven't tried any real maps. Just stacked some thirty lights and fire particles in one room. Have ramped up as much res my monitor can handle and full antialiasing and technical mumbo jumbo and not a single framdrop below 55-60. But further testing will occur

Are you OK?

Yes, Lumpy's a bit grumpy now. I'm OK, it was a side hit, hampered the lamp shielding and side mirror. Don't know about moose though. Local hunter on the prowl.

Oh deer!

After every meal.

I thought FS were part of collision model, not pathfinding? Did you convert it, Obs?

Yep. The cm is also crated during dmapping.

really you've never used manual subdivisions? Makes it so easy to just set your patch subdivisions to 6x6 and be done

No, I just cursed silently and tried to adjust my arch to get a non leaking one

good luck on that!

You'll be fine. Just make sure no one mentions the Scottish play. What's it called? Oh yeah! Macbeth.

And remember no matter what happens if some director/producer asks you to get in their car, keep your buttcheeks closed!!!

as I said, Tels ;p Gonna have a Crash Bang Crash!

@Bohr: It has been mapping on and on, just a neglect of the forums.

@Diego: I've felt like I've abandoned the community.

If it was for mapping we forgive your absence!

Open up good city sections in DR and study them.

They're often angled skybox walls (making the area squashed polygonal) with portaled kiss points out, a surrounding layer of tall buildings, and on an angled z-axis ground. Those features alone will get it started off looking natural and lead to interesting architecture.

I don't understand this: "making the area squashed polygonal"

And "angled z-axis ground" Do you mean different heights of the ground?

Sorry. For "squashed polygon", I mean if you're looking down at the street in DR, there are like 6-10 skybox "walls" of different lengths so it looks squashed into an oval. It instantly gets away from 4-wall boxy. And by the ground, yes I mean different heights, but mostly I mean the ground is sloped with patches & stairs. That's what I learned from looking at great city missions.

From what I read they don't have a 50% majority and are unwilling to partner with the far-right party. Your gold pieces are safe.

Yes, the political standings are quite unstable as is...

Yep, we finns are looking at our Swedish f®iends very closely. What happens in Sweden often happens later in Finland, so please make sure you do some really good decisions over there, you hear!

Yeah love that feature. Orbweaver or Greebo added the ability to select multiple patches at once and change all their subdivisions at once. Very nice.

Awesome!

Please do! TDM accent-o-galore, for great justice!

Serves them native english speakers right...

Not gonna happen with mapping, but I might stream some TDM missions and use a phat swedish accent, littered with finnish curse words though!

I look forward to it! For that purpose, I should make you a special mission full of unfair insta-kill traps, teleporting flaming (area damage effect) revenants, deadly jumping puzzles and a save functions disabled. "Pärkkele, finne!"

holy moly

wonder what happens if one installed it under C:\Windows

:-0

bst, stupidity would get penalized ;-). More seriously: if the uninstaller gave a big warning, it wouldn't be that big a problem, I thinks. It is horrible if there is no warning and stuff gets deleted!

There was no warning...interrestingly most games warn you about you're about to delete save games